Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

@weird_hell@cybre.space I have used that page, but I felt it spent too much time on Indo-European languages and not enough on the other languages for me to get a feel of the actual diversity among languages

even though my current conlang is called "unnamed language 3", it's actually my 6th conlang in the past 5 years. If you start making your own and need some help, I'm very happy to help you out with anything!

Since I was asked "how do you even manage to start a conlang?", here's my answer:

It's kind of like worldbuilding, in that you can either do a vague overview and just give the impression of a language, or you can delve into the depths and build a complex beast.

The way I started was with this guide: http://zompist.com/kit.html

(the first paragraph-ish is just an add for future books, the actual guide starts with the italics text)

@Thaminga thankyou, I'll look into these.

(I'll also do what I was planning on doing and look into navajo's aspects)

"phonemic hats"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhxjI3t6Ht4

omg

@BatElite I think @epsicola told me about a song that's 50 minutes long.

If we're including classical music, then something that comes to mind is The Rite of Spring/Le Sacre du Printemps by Igor Stravinsky – even though the shee music is divided into multiple movements, they're played with no break between them, so the full perfomance goes for 40-45 minutes.

hmm... I'm concerned that my tense/aspect/mode system is unconciously tending towards the way Germanic languages work.

Does anyone have any good references for Tense and Aspect systems that aren't like English? Either from the perspective of creating a conlang, or from grammars of real languages.

@TameBat I love them!

so many cute and soft bats...

NUKL TATS

ɠɬɑʳgɫ

@Tarale I know a few people with that, it's really rough...

@weird_hell@cybre.space sleep well!

@daylight goodnight, lovely!